A mediator in Calais, Nice-OM, Obama… The 5 pieces of information you will hear about tomorrow
6:27 p.m., October 26, 2021
1 – The government sends a mediator to Calais
The Director General of the French Office for Immigration and Integration, Didier Leschi, will travel tomorrow as mediator in Calais (Pas-de-Calais), scene of a hunger strike in support of migrants, announced this afternoon the Ministry of the Interior.
It is a “mission of contact and mediation to put in place the conditions for a constructive exit from the crisis for all”, underlines Leschi. Whoever was one of the actors in the dismantling of the moor (called the “jungle”) of Calais, five years ago should therefore meet associative actors tomorrow.
It also plans to talk to the strikers, engaged in this protest since October 11: Philippe Demeestère, a chaplain of Secours Catholique, and two activists. In particular, they demand an end to the dismantling of migrant camps during the winter period.
2 – The Incest Commission delivers its first opinion
It is tomorrow that the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence in Children (Civise) will issue its first report. This opinion, of about fifteen pages, will focus on the situation of mothers suspected of lying and of instrumentalizing their children when they denounce incestuous violence committed by the father and ex-spouse.
This subject was urgently needed: between March and September, the hundreds of messages received by the body came “exclusively from mothers who do not succeed in making their complaint heard”. And since the call for testimonies launched in September, these calls for help from mothers represent a third of the messages and appeals.
The Commission, which recalls that false complaints of violence represent only 2% of cases, intends to point out the glaring gap between the number of child victims, the number of complaints filed and the number of convictions.
3 – The Polish Senate decides on the construction of a wall on the Belarusian border
Ten days after its adoption by the Diet deputies, the Polish senators must discuss tomorrow the bill aimed at spending 344 million euros to build a separation wall along the 418 kilometer border with Belarus.
Poland intends to resist Belarus, where dictator Lukashenko’s regime incites and finances a migratory movement from Syria, Turkey, Lebanon or Afghanistan to direct it towards the Polish border, in order to make Warsaw pay for its support for the Belarusian opposition.
The ruling Law and Justice party (PiS, ultra-conservative) had a narrow majority in the lower house, but it could be otherwise in the Senate where the opposition is both in the majority and divided.
Sign that the subject concerns up to France, it will be notably on the menu of discussions, tomorrow, between Emmanuel Macron and his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, received at the Elysee.
> Read also the article by Bernard Guetta, MEP: “Do not give in to Polish madness”
4 – Ligue 1: Nice-Marseille, between sporting and security issues
Second attempt for Nice-Marseille. Troyes hosts tomorrow evening (9 p.m., Amazon Prime) this match to be replayed behind closed doors after the serious incidents which had led to its interruption at the Allianz Riviera, in Nice, on August 22: invaded ground, blows between players, management members and supporters… Verbal quarrels also opposed leaders of the two camps.
The Marseille club will also be back before the disciplinary committee of the League next Wednesday, after the holes in the security device found the day before yesterday at the Vélodrome, against PSG.
These reunions between neighbors of the Riviera will also have a strong sporting stake. Last weekend, Nice overthrew Lyon (3-2) while Marseille held PSG (0-0) in check. One of these two teams can take second place in the championship behind the Parisian leader. if there is a winner tomorrow at the Aube stadium.
5 – Springsteen and Obama engage
The Bruce Springsteen-Barack Obama adventure continues. Tomorrow the book is released in english Born in the United States, which resumes the long-term dialogue initiated in 2020 between the singer and the former president. Hours of conversation between two friends on America, racism, music, politics, their respective paths ultimately not so distant… The book is enriched by unpublished photos, scores and archives the Boss and the Nobel Peace Prize.
At the start of the pandemic and in the wake of the demonstrations caused by the assassination of George Floyd, the two men had decided to start a discussion. She was put online the following year by Spotify in the form of a podcast called renegades (renegades).
“Born in the USA”, Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen, Fayard, 320 pages, 49.90 euros.
WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD: Drones to plant a billion trees
Canadian company Flash Forest intends to save the planet with seeds and drones. The Toronto-based start-up wants to use these flying machines to “bombard” seeds on deforested areas, like after a forest fire for example. The company uses aerial mapping and other software for drone automation. And its cocktail of seeds is expertly studied so as not to deteriorate biodiversity. Result, on the tests carried out, their method is much more efficient and fast than those implemented by people.
The goal is to succeed in planting 10,000 trees per week in 2022 and to reach a billion new plants by 2028. A necessity: in Canada, the mega-fires of summer 2021 destroyed more than 400,000 hectares of forest.